List of comic cliffhangers

The following list of cliffhangers gives a brief summary of each comic story cliffhanger.

TV Comic

First Doctor

• The Klepton Parasites
  • Part 1 - John and Gillian emerge from the TARDIS, greeted by a hostile Klepton shuttle that wishes to take them as hostages.
  • Part 2 - An armada of Klepton shuttles arrive with the intent of wiping out the Thains. The First Doctor orders the Thains to arm themselves.
  • Part 3 - A giant creeper breaks out of the ground and grabs John.
  • Part 4 - The Doctor, John, and Gillian steal one of the Klepton air-crafts and attempt to fly it, but as they are struggling to get off of the ground a group of giant creepers begin to tear down a building -- meaning that they could be crushed in the falling rubble.
  • Part 5 - The team manages to take the air-craft under water, where they discover the Klepton's hidden fortress. However, they are on a direct collision path towards the hide-out.
  • Part 6 - The team are imprisoned by the Kleptons, and have to escape as to stop them from wiping out the Thains.
  • Part 7 - As the Kleptons prepare for attack, the Doctor discovers a group of Thains being forced to work in the ship. Together they plan to stop the Kleptons before they can enslave the rest of the planet's population.
  • Part 8 - The Kleptons discover the escaped prisoners and the Doctor orders them to fight for their lives.
  • Part 9 - The Doctor manages to redirect the creeper towards the city's reactor -- meaning that they have mere moments to escape before it explodes.

• The Therovian Quest
  • Part 1 - As the Doctor, John, and Gillian escape a monster; they are threatened at gun point by a small creature.
  • Part 2 - The Doctor gets Grig's ship working, and hopes that they can return to retrieve the TARDIS if they are to survive the coming dangers.
  • Part 3 - Grig's ship arrives on Ixon, but they are greeted by hostile natives.
  • Part 4 - As the Doctor and his grandchildren head off into the core of Ixon to retrieve the meditative moss, Ixa notes that he even if they do survive, he will kill them and attempt to extort the Therovians for all of their wealth.
  • Part 5 - Ixa tells the Doctor that he is going to sell the moss to the Therovians for a high price, and orders the team to be locked away.

Chad Valley

• On the Planet Vortis
  • The First Doctor, Ian Chesterton, and Barbara Wright arrive on Vortis and are informed that they have scared away one of the Zarbi creatures. However, more are on their way...

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Fourth Doctor

• Doctor Who and the Iron Legion
  • Part 1 - The Iron Legion's tank fires at the Fourth Doctor's TARDIS.
  • Part 2 - General Ironicus feeds the Doctor to the Ectoslime.
  • Part 3 - The Doctor believes he's discovered the horrifying secret of the alternate universe Roman Empire.
  • Part 4 - Inside the Temple of the Gods, the "statues" are revealed to be Malevilus.
  • Part 5 - The Doctor, Morris and Vesuvius are surrounded by Malevilus and the Robot Flying Squad.
  • Part 6 - The Doctor intends to wake the Bestiarus.
  • Part 7 - Magog reveals his Malevilus form and attacks the Doctor.

• City of the Damned
  • Part 1 - The Moderators attack the Doctor.
  • Part 2 - ZEPO infiltrate the Watchtower in Zombos.
  • Part 3 - The Brains Trust tells the Moderator General to find the Doctor and destroy him.
  • Part 4 - Big Hate unleashes the Barabara on the Doctor and the Moderators.
  • Part 5 - Big Hate puts Barabara onto the main conveyor belt to Zombos.
  • Part 6 - The Barabara attack Zombos.
  • Part 7 - The Moderator General kills the Brains Trust.

• Doctor Who and the Star Beast
  • Part 1 - A Wrarth Warrior smothers the Doctor with its tongue.
  • Part 2 - The Wrarth Warriors stow away on board the TARDIS, and intend to detonate the bomb planted in the Doctor's stomach.
  • Part 3 - The Wrarth Warriors detonate the bomb.
  • Part 4 - The Wrarth Warriors destroy the Doctor's fizgig, forcing the Doctor, Sharon, and Beep to retreat.
  • Part 5 - The Doctor realises that Beep is a criminal, and he has Sharon in his grasp.
  • Part 6 - A hypnotised Sharon attacks the Doctor.
  • Part 7 - Beep activates his ship's star jump, causing Blackcastle to be sucked into a black hole.

• Doctor Who and the Dogs of Doom
  • Part 1 - A battlecraft's tractor beam captures the Spacehog.
  • Part 2 - Brill attacks the Doctor.
  • Part 3 - The Doctor turns into a Werelok.
  • Part 4 - The Doctor learns the masters of the Werelox are the Daleks.
  • Part 5 - The Daleks chase the Doctor, Brill and K9.
  • Part 6 - K9 releases the creatures caged in the Daleks' zoo.
  • Part 7 - Joe Bean intends to send the Spacehog on a collision course with the Dalek battlecraft.

• Doctor Who and the Time Witch
  • Part 1 - The Doctor is pulled into an empty dimension.
  • Part 2 - Brimo attacks the Doctor with an energy blast.
  • Part 3 - Brimo summons an army of killers.

Sixth Doctor

• Exodus
  • The Doctor heads for Sylvaniar to investigate the mystery of the missing farmers.

• Revelation!
  • The Doctor and Krogh discover Rukh being strangled by a Cyberman.

Eighth Doctor

• Endgame
  • Part 1 - As the Eighth Doctor, Maxwell Edison, and Izzy Sinclair run to the Doctor's TARDIS, the being responsible for all the things in Stockbridge reveals himself to be the Celestial Toymaker.
  • Part 2 - As the ground begins to tilt, the Doctor and Izzy realise that Stockbridge is inside a snowglobe being held by the Toymaker and that he is about to drop it.
  • Part 3 - The Toymaker uses the Imagineum to create a monstrous puppet-like copy of the Doctor.

• The Keep
  • Part 1 - The Doctor is thrown into the nucleus of an artificial sun.

• Fire and Brimstone
  • Part 1 - The aliens invading Icarus Falling are revealed to be Daleks.
  • Part 2 - The Doctor is exterminated by the Daleks.
  • Part 3 - The Daleks prepare to operate on the Doctor and Sister Chastity reveals herself to be a Threshold.
  • Part 4 - The Daleks succeed in their plan to collapse Crivello's Star.

• Tooth and Claw
  • Part 1 - After being woken by a scream, Izzy finds Captain Lycett's dead body in the hallway, along with the words "he lives" written in Lycett's blood.

• Children of the Revolution
  • Part 1 - Izzy is surrounded by Daleks.
  • Part 2 - The Daleks declare the Doctor their "saviour".
  • Part 3 - The Daleks tell the Doctor and the humans that they may not leave Azhra Korr.
  • Part 4 - Izzy is grabbed by a tentacle as the voice of its owner declares that it can read her thoughts.
  • Part 5 - Alpha fires a death ray at the Doctor.

• The Flood
  • The Flood (1) - Wonderland discovers the TARDIS and the Cybermen are revealed.
  • World's End (2) - The Doctor and Destrii are cornered by Cybermen.
  • Friend or Foe (3) - The Cybermen prepare to convert Destrii.
  • Judgement Call (4) - The Cybermen invade Earth in force.
  • The Gauntlet (5) - The Cybermen sent down a wave of emotionally amplifying rain. Overwhelmed by excessive emotion, the affected subjects begin to willingly beg to be converted.
  • Flesh Will Always Fail (6) - The Doctor offers the Cybermen his own life in exchange for Earth.
  • Bows and Arrows (7) - The Doctor leaps into the Time Vortex.

Ninth Doctor

• The Love Invasion
  • Part 1 - Charlotte Cobb attacks the Ninth Doctor with her chemical compound.
  • Part 2 - Igrix intends to destroy the Moon.

• The Cruel Sea
  • Part 1 - Ex-Wife 7 pushes the Doctor into the Martian sea.
  • Part 2 - A reflection of the Doctor kills Dr Latimer and Dr Godwin, while a mirror reflection of Rose Tyler eats Rose.
  • Part 3 - Rose uses the sonic screwdriver to fire a high frequency blast at the air bubble surrounding the cruise ship to attack the life form from the sea.

• A Groatsworth of Wit
  • Part 1 - The Shadeys show themselves to the Doctor.

Tenth Doctor

• The Woman Who Sold the World
  • Part 1 - Martha is ejected from the head of a High Goliax.
  • Part 2 - In the Krib's speculator, the organic processors yell "home" in the Tenth Doctor's head in unison.
  • Part 3 - Sugarpea threatens to overthrow the government of Loam.

• The First
  • Part 1 - James Francis Hurley is attacked by an icy creature.
  • Part 2 - The Skith reveal themselves to Ernest Shackleton's expedition.
  • Part 3 - The Skith Leader freezes the Doctor upon realising that his race has failed to be the first to reach Earth.

• Universal Monsters
  • Part 1 - Viktor takes Martha to the Thane's keep.
  • Part 2 - After failing to hear Martha's warnings, the Doctor's destruction of the neuropathic generator causes the villagers to transform into monsters.

• The Widow's Curse
  • Part 1 - Sister Shelk welcomes the human tourists to the Church of the Sycorax.
  • Part 2 - A group of Sycorax riders have discovered the Doctor and Lee Deverill, while the Haxan Craw realises that the humans betrayed the Sycorax on her husband's ship.
  • Part 3 - The Sycorax launch an aeroplane containing phage abstracts created by the Gilfane Craw that are carrying a virus to be inflicted upon humanity.

Eleventh Doctor

• Hunters of the Burning Stone
  • Part 1 - The Doctor finds himself in Ian and Barbara's classroom at Coal Hill School.
  • Part 2 - The Hunters of the Burning Stone announce that the entire world of Cornucopia must die.
  • Part 3 - The Hunters of the Burning Stone are revealed to be the Tribe of Gum, who want their home planet of Earth back.
  • Part 4 - The Prometheans force the Doctor to recall all of his life's struggles.
  • Part 5 - The Doctor, holding up his sonic screwdriver, warns his earlier self's TARDIS that "this next bit is going to hurt."

• A Wing and a Prayer
  • Part 1 - A sandstorm reveals itself to in fact be hostile sand duplicates of humans.
  • Part 2 - The insectoid Koragatta reveals its gigantic size.

• Welcome to Tickle Town
  • Part 1 - Clara is forced to listen to a song describing the supposed dystopian nature of the world outside Tickle Town.

• Pay the Piper
  • Part 1 - The Doctor is vaporised by Mr Minus.

• The Blood of Azrael
  • Part 1 - Keli consumes a pill that causes her to dissolve into powder.
  • Part 2 - "Azrael" uses his powers to dematerialise the TARDIS before the Doctor and Clara cam enter.
  • Part 3 - "Azrael" is killing an entire room's occupants, including Amy Johnson. Clara can do nothing but watch from outside the door.
  • Part 4 - "Azrael", now revealed to be Danny Fisher, is in the process of killing the Doctor and Annabel Lake.

Fourteenth Doctor

• Liberation of the Daleks
  • Liberation - in 1966, the Doctor sees a familiar flying saucer in the skies above Wembley Stadium, with Daleks flying out and exterminating all the players on the field.
  • Daleks' Invasion Earth 1966 A.D.! - after having his TARDIS stolen by the Daleks, the Supreme Dalek order its fellow Daleks to not engage with the Doctor and proceed to maximum extermination. All the Daleks subsequently fire their gun rays at the Doctor, who is surrounded.
  • Dead Again - as a result of having avoided being exterminated by direct hits from the Daleks' gunstick rays, the Doctor is brought onboard the Supreme flying saucer, where he scans both parties to conclude that the Daleks are not real. In a fit of rage to prove the Doctor wrong, the Supreme Dalek orders a direct hit on Earth. The ships enter a icosahedronic formation and activate pulsator beams that cracks open the entire planet, as the Doctor watches on in disbelief at what had just happened.
  • Earth Shock! - after being taken away by a pair of gorillas named Claire and Claudine, the Doctor is greeted by the woman who handed him the World Cup trophy, who revealed her name as Georgette, she leads him into an observatory screening every famous moment in Dalek history, the Dalek Dome.
  • The Atrocity Exhibition - after following Georgette into a control room behind a door, overhearing her and the screen-operator Merlin talking about psychoplasm, and to his concern, discovers that the Dome's secret source of income, designated Specimen Six Sigma, has awoken from its dream-filled slumber.
  • When the Sleeper Wakes - having figured out that the Daleks were all just simulacra, the Supreme forced Georgette to open the TARDIS doors, allowing it to escape the dying simulation world. Back in the real world the TARDIS materialised inside the Dalek Dome, with Georgette stepping out into the Doctor's arms, followed by the Supreme Dalek.
  • The First Death! - after having his sonic screwdriver destroyed by the Daleks, all the tourists in the Dome began cheering and clapping, thinking that the entire thing was just for a show, starting to beg for the Daleks to "Exterminate" them, to the Doctor's horror.
  • Dome of the Brave! - after noting the Supreme Dalek is "rubbing off" on a young boy, the Doctor reveals that simulacra cannot exist for long in the real world, causing the simulacrum version of Georgette to panic that she will die after a while, and she runs off crying, finding a teleportation pod and beams herself away to Skaro, where several Daleks spot her arriving in the middle of their city.
  • Deep in Hyperspace - convinced that the Dome crew will regret chasing the Doctor away from their attraction, he takes the TARDIS forwards in time to prove it to them, but finds himself face to face with the Golden Emperor, who greets the Doctor with a "we meet at last".
  • Golden Age - the Dalek interrogator activates the Hypno-Pulse on Georgy to access her parietal link to Georgette. In the other world, Georgette answers a call, but suddenly screams in pain as the Hypno-Pulse reaches through to her. The Emperor Dalek exclaims victoriously that they will soon take over the Dalek Dome.
  • Slave to the Rhythm! - as the Golden Emperor victoriously exclaim that only Daleks will remain in the universe after conquering the Dalek Dome, Georgy awakens from her trance, realising she will be destroyed as well, which the Doctor points out as a flaw in the Daleks' plan. The Golden Emperor swiftly orders the extermination of Georgy. As the Doctor puts himself between her and the Daleks, the Emperor knows that the death rays will not harm him, and the Daleks all fire, which goes right through the Doctor and hits Georgy, killing her.
  • The Garden of Death - after narrowly escaping the Dalek patrols on Spiridon, the Doctor zaps himself, Georgette, Claire and Claudine back on Skaro, finding himself now facing the Large Emperor in his throne room.
  • The Hell Gate! - as the Doctor gets ready to fight alongside the Large Emperor against the Golden Emperor, Georgette teleport back to the Dome to open channels to the various Zones and patch them to the throne room to ask them all to join forces against the Golden Emperor, who has opened a Reality Gate to the real world and starts destroying the Earth.

Fifteenth Doctor

• Mancopolis
  • Mancopolis - the Doctor and Ruby Sunday are apprehended by the Mancopolis Care Force believing them to be tram raiders. At the same time a weather orb approaches, demanding them for them to smile, but as they didn’t do this, the cloud gets angry at them and produces rain directly above the pair. With a sigh, Ruby realizes the city they’re in really is Manchester.
  • Smile! - Mayor Mulberry turns into a massive People-Eating Silkmoth and prepares to attack the Doctor and Ruby, however they run off to the lift. Satisfied with her trap, the Moth-Mother activates the teleport inside the lift, transporting the duo down to the underground, where a horde of massive People-Eating Silkmoths reside, ready to feast.
  • Sub-Culture - having been forced to wear a teleport wristband by the Lepidopterans, Ruby is taken hostage inside The Facility, a place masquerading as a club that is really a large cocoon in which she, along with other humans, are being painlessly processed in cocoons while they are made to dream that they are dancing at the club.
  • Power, Corruption & Lies! - as the Doctor and Ruby has managed to turn the city of Mancopolis against Mayor Mulberry, with the mob walking the streets and chanting for the mayor's eviction, she resorts to summoning Weather Control to strike thunder and lightning at the masses, killing or wounding them.

N/A (No Doctor)

• The Crystal Throne
  • Part 1 - Lady Cornelia turns a large group of police officers into mindless, obedient insectoids.

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Tenth Doctor

• Bat Attack
  • Bat Attack! (1) - The Doctor heads to Reading Gaol to search for a cure to the vampire virus.

Eleventh Doctor

• Attack of the Space Leeches!
  • Part 1 - The TARDIS materialises around Stephen.

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Doctor Who: The Third Doctor

• The Heralds of Destruction
  • Part 1 - The Third Doctor returns to his lab to find the Second Doctor there.
  • Part 2 - The micro machines take over the Third Doctor.
  • Part 3 - The Second Doctor is revealed to have been Salamander the whole time.
  • Part 4 - Salamander activates his time machine.
  • Part 5 - Salamander escapes from his jail cell.

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Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor

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Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor

Year One

• Revolutions of Terror
  • Part 1 - A creature looking like a monstrous version of Gabby Gonzalez advances on her and the Tenth Doctor in a subway car.
  • Part 2 - Gabby runs to lock the back door of the laundromat to prevent Cerebravores from getting in. The Doctor is attacked by a Cerebravore on another planet.

• The Arts in Space
  • Part 1 - Gabby is pursued by a two-headed binary apprentice with claw-like fingers while the Doctor falls down an infinite stairwell.

• The Weeping Angels of Mons
  • Part 1 - Wullie Cairns confronts a Weeping Angel.
  • Part 2 - A lightbulb goes dark. When it lights up again, a Weeping Angel is reaching for Gabby's throat.

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Year Three

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Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor

Year One

• After Life
  • A shadowy Time Lord figure is watching the TARDIS, waiting to finish the story.

• The Friendly Place
  • Professor Dutta reports that something happened to the Entity.

• Whodunnit?
  • August Hart points his gun at the Eleventh Doctor. In the toilet, John Jones meets face to face with ARC who has sent everyone it has touched into a coma.

Year Two

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Year Three

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Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor

Year One

• Terrorformer
  • Part 1 - As the Twelfth Doctor, Clara Oswald and several employees of Dollar Intergalactic are trying not to slid into lava bubbling all around them, a Hyperion rises in front of them, promising the destruction of the universe.
  • Part 2 - A Hyperion wakes up on Neptune in 2114.

• The Swords of Kali
  • Part 1 - Multiple monstrous creatures descend on Clara Oswald and Priyanka Maratha from the ceiling promising their blood to Kali.
  • Part 2 - Kali is resurrected in Clara's body.

Year Two

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Year Three

• Beneath the Waves
  • Part 1 - The Twelfth Doctor turns to discover that his companion, Hattie Munroe, has turned into one of the seaweed monsters.

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Thirteenth Doctor

• Where's the Doctor?
  • Part 1 - After nearly considering the mission in assassinating the Doctor, Eva De Ville finally spots the Thirteenth Doctor and friends with Elizabeth II.